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From: debri@dds.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis)
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Subject: Re: how do you do, PS2?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:41:23 +0200
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Scott Ward <scott.ward6@virgin.net> wrote:

> Personally, I think it looks fantastic!
> I was hoping Sony would come up with something like this and they didn't let
> me down. :o)
> With all the talk about Sony wanting it to be a 'home entertainment' system
> it figured that Sony would try and come up with something that won't look
> out of place in a video cabinet or 'hi-fi' unit. It's black which pretty
> much goes with any other video, TV, hi-fi, satellite decoder, etc. etc. and
> it looks way sleek..... Mmmmm. Look at what Sega did with the dreamcast, now
> that's an ugly machine!
> Just imagine it sat on top of a video in a nice birch coloured cabinet from
> IKEA, I think that's what Sony's aiming at. :o)
> 
> As for the logo and the name, who cares? Most of us have been calling it PS2
> anyway and as far as I can tell they're sticking with the same logo (front
> of the disk drive drawer), I think the PS2 label on the top/side looks fine
> aswell.

Till here I totally agree. And after another look to the big pictures,
did anybody notica that the old PSX logo on the tray is turnable?


> I'm just happy that no-ones moaning about the spec's, even if you think it
> looks shit we all know that it's got some serious power under the bonnet!
> :o) which, at the end of the day, is what really matters. I'm looking
> forward to seeing how the developers can cope with it, long gone are the
> days when developers could put bad gameplay elements down to machine
> limitations.

Just what you said, if you don't like the looks, keep a picture of the
dreamcast at hand to compare..
 
> Roll on the shiny boxy black brick that is.... PS2.
> 
in  Holland as well..

DEnnis..